Career
Glen started playing harmonica after seeing Muddy Waters, and the "American Folk-Blues Festivals" which visited London in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His early influences being Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Junior Wells. Glen has played on over 50 albums and recorded/performed with: Alannah Myles, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Slash, John Mayall, Steve Lukather, Skunk Baxter, (on the Yardbirds" album Birdland) and he recorded six albums with Little Axe.
He played with Peter Green, Paul Jones, Junior Delgado and Hubert Sumlin at the Long Beach Blues Festival.
He recorded the album On The Road Again with Doctor Feelgood other collaborators include Art Themen, Pee Wee Ellis, Dub Syndicate, Paul Cox, Alan Barnes, Little Axe and Gypie Mayo. Glen has played at Montreux, Brecon Jazz Festival and Nice Jazz Festivals, Hollywood House of Blues, the Hilton, Las Vegas, and The Royal Albert Hall, as well as various television and radio performances.
Glen is cited as "one of the finest blues harp players and slide guitarists of his generation" - Soundcheck magazine. "Alan Glen is one of Britain"s top harmonica players and playing of this standard will help to cement that position" - Net Rhythms.
"A powerful addition to the band is harmonica player Alan Glen, who replaces Relf on the mouth harp and is himself no stranger to the blues scene" - Cable News Network. Glen is a successful songwriter, his songs have been recorded by many musicians and used on television and film soundtracks, most notably the B.B. King film Life of Riley.
Doctor " Live" (Brooks Blues) - 2011.